A Crack in the Sky - reviewed by Lachlan

This book is about a boy called Conor  who lives with his mum in an old, broken building. It all starts when his mum (who separated) ripped her favourite dress on a spring in the sofa. His mum goes to buy a new sofa but she can't afford it. When Conor is walking to school, he spotted a sofa floating in the sea. He got his mum and 2 friends to help get it home. Surprisingly, the sofa was bone dry and even though it was huge, it fitted in the doorway. His mum and him slept on it that night. In the morning Conor was sick so his mum said she can't come to work and should stay to help Conor. The boss fired her. When she came home, Conor was bouncing on the couch as if nothing was wrong. His mum got extremely angry with him and ran off. He fell asleep and when he woke up, he was in a different universe and was struggling to remember where he was before. He found out he was inside the 'evernew' sofa- the one he had brought into their house. He met some people who had been stuck inside the sofa for a long time and tried to tell them where they all came from. But they thought he was crazy and didn't listen. After a lot of searching, he found his one and only exit. Every once and a while there was a 'crack in the sky' which came with really strong winds. So he tried to make a wind board to get him and his friends out. Someone stole the last thing he needed to get out so he followed it. It was his dad. Using a rope he, his dad and his friends got out to find the hole was his mum vacuuming. In the end, his mum and dad got together and using diamonds his dad found, started a new life together as a proper family.